Aussies are not expected to be able to travel overseas until late 2021, the Treasurer has confirmed after handing down the Federal Budget. Speaking to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Josh Frydenberg said international borders would likely remain “largely closed off until late next year”. The Treasurer said the Budget assumed domestic borders would reopen by December, but international ...

Singapore will open its borders to Australians from next week, but will continue to exclude Victorians from entering the country. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) released a statement on Wednesday saying that, from midday on Thursday (2pm AEST), October 1, Australian citizens could apply for an Air Travel Pass for entry to the country on or after October ...

The announcement by Prime Minister Scott Morrison comes as the Australian government discusses the possibility of a travel bubble with Singapore. New Zealand residents will soon be able to holiday in Australia as part of a one-way travel bubble the government hopes will provide a much-needed boost to the struggling tourism sector. South Australia and New South Wales will be ...

In this cross-posting from The Conversation, Monash University’s Isaac Gross discusses which towns could benefit from an increase in domestic tourism caused by the closure of Australia’s borders. Christmas promises the gift of open travel within Australia, and possibly to New Zealand and even other Pacific Island nations. But it seems increasingly likely international borders will remain largely closed until ...

Victoria’s second wave of coronavirus was caused by a mix of bad luck and bad management We have learned a lot from the judicial inquiry into hotel quarantine in Victoria, and the lessons should not be obscured by the fact that the failures were systemic and cultural, rather than the result of people acting corruptly or in bad faith. Ministers, ...

Queensland tourism destinations have featured in nine of 10 «hotspots» for mortgage deferrals as operators looked to recoup costs during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. New analysis from Equifax, which analysed repayment information from the big four banks, found that when broken down by region mortgage holders in the Whitsundays were the most likely to defer repayments. The Whitsundays ...

Born 15 March 1930, Passed away 11 September 2020 Beloved husband, father and grandfather, Nahme Utrush Sukkar passed away at home surrounded by his family in Melbourne, Australia. Born in Sourgha, near the mountainous village of Becharre in Lebanon, he emigrated to Australia in 1956 and began his great adventure down under, being the only second person from the village ...

Australia’s brutal border wars have dominated headlines as the coronavirus crises raged on, with the NSW and Queensland Premiers repeatedly locking horns over the controversial issue. Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk and NSW’s Gladys Berejiklian have clashed again and again after the northern state barred NSW residents from entering for months on end, with similar divisive border closures also in place in ...

Coronavirus cases have skyrocketed in Lebanon where the crisis-ridden state is now considering new lockdown measures, raising the specter of a deepening financial crunch. A combination of high infection rates, a floundering economy and renewed political turmoil could signal a new phase in the country’s slew of crises which began after a popular uprising last October. In addition to a ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison stressed the coronavirus pandemic measures will be in place for at least six months. «It could be longer,» he told A Current Affair during a live interview with Tracy Grimshaw. The prime minister said that the government›s framework of six months was based off modelling done early in the pandemic, and that he continued to use ...